TN to Intensify Legal Battle Against NEET

THE meeting of the legislature parties in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Wednesday unanimously decided that the state would continue its legal battle to get an exemption from the National Eligibility-cum Entrance Test (NEET).

- T MURUGANANDHAM @Chennai

This would include intensifying the pursuit of the plea already filed before the Supreme Court in 2023 against NEET and, if needed, the filing of a fresh petition before the SC to challenge the recent withholding of assent by the President to the NEET-exemption Bill adopted by the TN Assembly.

The resolution, moved by Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, said further efforts would be taken after consultation with legal experts.

The principal opposition—the AIADMK, its ally Puratchi Bharatham and the BJP—boycotted the meeting.

CHIEF Minister M K Stalin, in his inaugural address, detailed how the DMK government has been striving for the past four years to get an exemption from NEET through legal means, but the union government had refused to provide assent to the Bill seeking exemption.